Now some added fun for your summer! The Healthy Lakes contest gives you a chance to win some wonderful weekly prizes and at the end of the summer a fabulous Grand Prize of $1000.

It’s pretty simple. Watch for lake health tips each week in the Haliburton Echo and the Minden Times. The next week we’ll ask a question about the tip and you’ll email your answer to chacontest@canoefm.com You have until Thursday 5pm to get in your answer.

All correct answers will go into our big sand bucket and each Friday we’ll announce that week’s winner, on The Canoe FM Drive Show and in the papers. The contest runs until August 31st. Check the Minden Times and the Haliburton Echo for tips!

If you cannot get a copy of the paper in your area you can subscribe to the digital edition. The cost is $36.00 per year. Folks can call the Minden Times at 705-286-1288 or email Debbie Comer - Debbie@haliburtonpress.com

The week one winner will get a super prize of dinner for two courtesy of McKeck’s. A great place to dine in Haliburton. PLUS, you’ll get a $25 gift certificate from Northern Expressions, a $25 gift certificate from Lockside Trading, a year’s supply of Eco Ethic septic treatment, a pajama gift certificate from Country Picken’s and BBQ paddles from Walker’s Home Hardware in Haliburton. Wow, indeed.

Get your answers in as soon as you can … send them to chacontest@canoefm.com, We’ll announce the winner on the Canoe FM 100.9 Friday Drive Show and in the papers the following week.

The Haliburton Echo, Minden Times and CanoeFM are pleased to be media partners for the Healthy Lakes Contest and a big thank you to the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Associations for their leadership.

Twenty new bat boxes added to Haliburton County! On Saturday, June 9, at the Fish Hatchery, 24 adults and 4 children constructed bat boxes from kits created by the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association in partnership with the Land Trust. Paul Heaven, the Land Trust’s bat project biologist, visited the workshop to summarize our research results and answer participants’ questions on bats and bat boxes…

Since the spring of 2015, Hospice North Hastings has operated the Village Playhouse. Funds raised at the theatre have been covering the costs of restoring one of Bancroft’s landmarks and we also use the funds we raise to support the programs and services that are offered by Hospice North Hastings in our community. Hospice North Hastings does not receive any health care dollars, so the Playhouse provides us with fun, culturally exciting ways to create a revenue stream…

The FOCA is pleased to announce a new report about the significance of waterfront property owners (WPO), and an elections Toolkit for member Associations interested in getting out the vote in rural Ontario this fall….

Everyone has their own opinions about social media. It is an efficient way to communicate with others far away, to find long-lost friends and to show the world what you are up to. But it is also known as an incredible time waster and one person’s idea of a fabulous post, may be drivel to someone else. For us, last fall, social media actually played an integral part of letting us know about the disaster that we had on the island…

The HHLT is pleased to announce the acquisition, through donation and Conservation Easement Agreement, of a beautiful, ecologically diverse property. Through the Federal Ecological Gifts Program, Leopoldina and Margaret Dobrzensky have donated outright approximately 500 acres to the HHLT, while another 100 acres will be protected through a Conservation Easement Agreement between the Dobrzenskys and the HHLT….

In 2017 The Land Between charity and The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre (home of the Turtle Trauma Centre) declared a state of emergency for Ontario’s turtles. This was because there were unprecedented numbers of turtles killed on roads and brought into the trauma centre for treatment…

Alcohol is a factor in nearly 40% of boating incidents and by the middle of summer, boating is in full swing. With warmer water, hotter days and many enjoying fun in the sun on their boats, it is the perfect time to remind Canadian boaters about the risks of drinking and boating….

Welcome back to the cottage and Paudash Lake! Your PLCA Board has been busy this season attending meetings, having meetings and planning future meetings. Following is some commentary on a number of issues, items and events past and coming up…

The more things change, well...they change. Those changes can sometimes make navigation on land and water and friendly conversations challenging. I was drawn in to such a conversation recently to choruses of who has the oldest map. It was all in good fun. However, a dear friend who drops in from overseas annually is perplexed often by name changes that others maintain were always thus…